Monday, April 27, 2015

Daniel Greenfield reports “No Jewish Flag” Allowed in Berlin Over Fear of Muslim Violence. Spineless responses like not flying the Israeli flag just encourages more Muslim violence! Should we also remove the American flag because it offends non-Americans? When will it end? Instead of getting stronger, we all keep allowing ourselves to become weaker while criminals and terrorists become more brazen.

I am sick watching the destruction, the looting, and the rioting in Baltimore live on TV as if it's a reality show, complete with excuses for the thugs who are destroying their own community. I noticed there hasn't been much attention given to the police who have been attacked and the one who is unresponsive, but perhaps it's too politically incorrect to mention cops in a sympathetic way.

Blatant anti-police sentiment and political correctness have contributed to this uncivilized situation, and I doubt anything will improve soon as long as people prefer to make excuses about the decline of our culture.

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Watch this video and listen to this reading by Prince Charles given at the dawn service in tribute to the men who died in the Gallipoli campaign 100 years ago.

I happened to turn on the BBC news in time to watch this live and was very touched. Listening to the letter reminded me of the letter written by Sullivan Ballou during the Civil War.

Here's the text of the reading: "I suspect that many of those here today may be of my own generation,
born some thirty years after the end of the 1st World War and whose
grandfathers and great uncles may easily have fought or lost their lives
in this most bloody of campaigns. When I was young I remember talking
to the then Field Marshall Lord Slim about his recollections of the
battles in which he was ultimately badly wounded.
When the Anzacs
finally left this place, they were tormented by the thoughts of leaving
their comrades behind, that their suffering and loss would be
forgotten, that their graves lie untended.
Lieutenant Ken Millar of the Second Battalion wrote:
There
was the question of our dead mates… we lived at Gallipoli with our dead
alongside us. Owing to the lack of space our cemeteries were always
under our eyes. The hardest feature of the evacuation was in leaving
those dead comrades behind. They had bequeathed us a sacred trust… as
the party stole away from the line they took off their hats passing the
crosses, and old hard-bitten Anzacs wept silent tears.
They did indeed bequeath us a sacred trust – a trust we honour today.
Company
Quartermaster Sergeant Benjamin Leane of the 10th Battalion was one of
six brothers, five of whom served in the First World War. He wrote his
diary in the form of letters to his wife. On the night before the
landing he wrote:
In case the worst happens and I am unable to
make any more entries I will take this opportunity to bid you goodbye
dear girl. I trust that I will come through alright, but it is
impossible to say and I must do my duty whatever it is. But if I am to
die, know that I died loving you with my whole heart and soul, dearest
wife that a man ever had. Kiss little Gwen and our new baby, who perhaps
I may never see, and never let them forget Daddy. And you, dear girl, I
would love to write you a long goodbye letter, but I must do my work
and there is no time. But I love you dearly, my own Phyllis, and I trust
that you will always love me. But remember, dear, that if I am killed, I
wish you to do absolutely as you think advisable for your future… One
little word for mother, dear. Bear with her and be good to her in her
few remaining years, for I know she loves me dearly. And tell her that I
am not afraid to die, nor am I afraid of what is to come after death.
Just tell her “I know in whom I have believed”. And now, dear, dear
sweet heart, goodbye, goodbye.
Benjamin Leane never held his new
baby. He survived Gallipoli and was promoted to Major only to die in
France in 1917. Here today, we remember his sacrifice, and that of all
those who served and suffered here in this far away place on the other
side of the world to the Antipodes."

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

A murderer can blow up, kill, and maim innocent people and he will still be seen sympathetically by teenaged girls and by liberal fools. Howie Carr explains.

"Can the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Fan Club please tell the truth for once
about why they really oppose the death penalty for their bloodthirsty
monster?It’s because the Joker is a poster boy for so many of their protected classes.He
is a 'refugee,' a Muslim, a welfare leech, a drug dealer, an
on-the-record Obama supporter, a resident of Cambridge (in a Sect. 8
apartment naturally) and a terrorist — every fact proven at trial beyond
a reasonable doubt.
And most important, at least to Rolling Stone, he has 'tousled hair.'
Just
a nice 'young fella,' as ex-Gov. Deval Patrick once described him. A 'handsome lad,' as the Northeastern professor called him two weeks ago."

It's not only terrorists. Remember the Menendez Brothers; Robert Ramirez (the Nightstalker); Scott Peterson, and other killers, who had women lined up to visit them in prison? And how about celebrities who support murderers? I'll never understand this twisted mentality. Too bad there's not this sort of support for the victims!

I did a double-take when I saw that Kirsten Powers was the author of the article titled Christians thrown overboard left to drown by Obama. I'm used to seeing her on Fox News vociferously defending him, so I was relieved to see her write a statement like this: "Obama only mentions Christians to lecture them, rather than defend them from persecution." I hope she and others will continue to express their outrage at the persecution of Christians and the silence of the White House.

Can the media stop its incessant pushing of marijuana and how wonderful it is to be gay and transgender? They must assume the more they enthuse about these things and encourage this sort of propaganda, the more people will rush to accept it. They're wrong.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Obama is going to give Iran $50 billion dollars if they sign the nuclear agreement. On the web this is cleverly being referred to as a signing bonus. Remember Cash for Clunkers? Now you have Cash for Stinkers!

This is via Israel Matzav: "An immediate and irreversible infusion of $50 billion would boost Iran's
GDP by more than 10% overnight and signal the end of meaningful
financial pressure. But it would also allow the White House to continue
insisting that sanctions relief was being phased out in principle: all
the sanctions that matter would get removed immediately, but there would
still be a few sanctions left as a legal matter.

The trick could still prove politically toxic on the Hill. It would
provide the Iranians with an infusion of $50 billion for their terror
infrastructure and their march across the Middle East, which would panic
our Arab allies. who are at war with Iran because of those campaigns.
It’s also $50 billion to a regime that is dedicated to America's
destruction and that killed over a thousand American soldiers. That
spins itself."

How does Obama continue to get away with these things? It helps that the American media is so compliant and that the American people are so stupid.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Smithsonian Magazine has a lot of good reading, including this article about personal relics that ended up at the Smithsonian.

Monday, April 13, 2015

Here's the latest column by humorist Argus Hamilton, which includes this news item:"State Department spokesperson Marie Harf dismissed Henry
Kissinger's editorial that questions the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal as a
bunch of big words. She's guarding the president's lasting world legacy.
Barack Obama started as America's first black president and he ended up
as the Father of Greater Iran."

It's just sickening to hear sympathy for the killer Tsarnaev.Do the victims who lost limbs sympathize with him? Are the parents of the murdered child against the death penalty? I really have never understood how any terrorism victims could possibly want their tax dollars going for the upkeep of brutal killers in prison!
The Dry Bones cartoon needs no explanation. Endangered species get more attention than murdered Christians!
The Obama statue is a take-off of that hideous Lucille Ball statue in New York. Both should be dismantled immediately!(First and third cartoon by Michael Ramirez. )

Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn write, "When all else fails, play the victim. Fresh off his 'I’m insulted' campaign against Israel’s prime minister
speaking to Congress, President Obama is rolling out the victim shtick
again, this time to try to intimidate Israel and American Jews over his
Iran capitulation." Just how stupid does he think we are? (Never mind...don't answer that.)

Dennis Prager talks about the decay of American culture. We've seen columns like this before, but it doesn't get any easier. Kids growing up today think this is normal, but those of us who remember what normal really is find it hard to watch this decline -- and we will not accept it!

If you want a perfect example of the decay, read this Mitch Albom column. He's an excellent writer, and it's a shame he had to waste his skill on an animal like this who tortured and killed her kids. "In Blair's low-income housing complex,
the Martin Luther King Apartments, the units are attached. You could
certainly hear screaming through the walls. You could certainly notice a
terrorized child. No one did? For years? What does that say?"

Saturday, April 04, 2015

Stories like this make me sick: "An inmate convicted of murder will receive taxpayer-funded sex-change
surgery that could cost $100,000 after a federal judge in San Francisco
ruled that not doing so would violate the inmate's constitutional
rights." What about the constitutional rights of taxpayers? Don't we have the right to say no to outrages like this?

Friday, April 03, 2015

Gee, and I thought the selfie fad was ridiculous here. Just look at what's been going on in Iran: "In response to the deal and the speech, young Iranians grabbed at
the opportunity to make unusual selfies - against the TV screens
with Obama - and posted them to social media. One man pinched the US President on the cheek, and another kissed
US Secretary of State John Kerry." Well, there's no accounting for taste, but of course they're ecstatic -- they've just defeated The Great Satan and gotten the best of a bad deal. I doubt the Israelis will be kissing Obama's picture any time soon.

Wednesday, April 01, 2015

It now seems that if you don't agree with the liberal, politically correct view on every issue (pro-marijuana, pro-transgender, pro-gay marriage, etc), you are automatically labeled a bigot, and if you don't give your opinion at all, like Coach K, you are even attacked for that! Here's the best definition of tolerance that I ever saw: "Tolerance means recognizing others’ right
to refuse to celebrate what they don’t agree with. Religious liberty protections
defending that right take nothing away from anyone. But compelling celebration
certainly does." Amen to that.

I came across this open letter to homosexual activists at Adrienne's Corner, which includes my own sentiments exactly: "Back in the olden days, people didn't usually announce to the world the
manner in which they engaged in sex, including people who were
heterosexual. We deemed it not worthy parlor chit-chat and, frankly, it
was no one's business. Now, the noise makers amongst you are demanding tolerance. I hate to
break this to you, but tolerance is not a good thing. Tolerance
presupposes that the one doing the tolerating has already decided that
what he is tolerating is not good....You don't want to be tolerated.
You know that is not a good thing. No, you want approval for the
manner in which you engage in sex."